CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION COVERAGE CONTINUES!

At long last, New York has climbed back into a tie for first place with California! The winner of Caption Contest 124 (Mike Twohy's men crawling in desert) is

"I don't know about you, but I'd be willing to pitch in for a new contact lens."
Peter Moller (Syracuse, NY)

The last time New York was in first was way back in Caption Contest 3 (Jack Ziegler's Emergency Hotline).

Things aren't looking great for the rest of the states, as there's a ten point margin between the front-runners and second-place New Jersey.


Still, the contest continues, with the following nominees in Caption Contest 126 (David Sipress's talking head in a pseudo-Mondrian).

"Excuse me—which way is Marcel Duchamp's urinal?"
Robert Rosenthal (Boston, MA)

"Pardon me, can you draw clothes?"
Tom Tyler (Alexandria, VA)

"Please, a sandwich, a piece of fruit, anything."
Albert Raman (Philadelphia, PA)

My loser:

"Where's Harry Potter? There's trouble at Hogwarts!"

Maybe it should've been

"The name of this painting is Talking Head."

Sigh.


As for Anti-Caption Contest 127 (Drew Dernavich's fishing hole shaped like a human), the announcement of the winner might have wait 'til next year.


Caption Contest 128 is here. Anti-Caption Contest 128 will likely turn up here at some point.


THE STANDINGS

Here is the current New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest breakdown by state. You can find it all mapped out here.

20 California
20 New York (17 from the Big Apple)

10 New Jersey

6 Massachusetts
6 Pennsylvania

5 Connecticut (two from New Haven, three not)
5 Illinois (four from Chicago—two captions by Lawrence Wood, two drawings by Leo Cullum)
5 Virginia (two from Richmond)

4 Maryland (none named Mary)

3 Georgia (includes two-time winner Carl Gables)
3 Minnesota (Minneapolis 2, St. Paul 1)
3 North Carolina
3 Ohio
3 Texas

2 District of Columbia
2 Mississippi
2 Missouri
2 New Hampshire
2 Oregon (both named Eric, both from Portland)
2 Rhode Island
2 Utah
2 Vermont

1 Alabama
1 Alaska
1 Arizona
1 Delaware
1 Florida
1 Iowa
1 Kentucky
1 Michigan
1 Nevada
1 New Mexico
1 Oklahoma
1 Washington

Map Introduction

Thanks to Andriy Bidochko for Map Builder.

Image by David Marc Fischer using Samsung cameraphone